Aggression and Prejudice
The hormone positively correlated with aggression.
What is testosterone?
The type of attribution exemplified by the following: Your date is late for dinner and you think, "What a loser!"
What in an internal or dispositional attribution?
The tendency for someone to agree to a large request after agreeing to a small request.
What is foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
True or False – Attractive people generally have higher self-esteem than unattractive people.
False
The concept illustrated by the following: Maggie and Siham thought the show was a little boring. After discussing it, they agreed, that it was the worst show of the year.
What is group polarization?
The principle that aggression is caused by the anger of not getting something we want.
The principle exemplified by the following: You watch someone save a child from a burning building and you think, “What a hero!”. Later, when you save a child from a burning building, you think, “Anyone would’ve done the same in my situation.”
What is the fundamental attribution error or the actor-observer bias?
The concept studied in Asch's famous line study.
What is conformity?
True or False – Attractive people are perceived as more socially skilled than unattractive people.
True (probably why you perceive me as so exquisitely socially skilled :)
In Sherif’s Robber’s Cave study, this made peace between the two groups.
What is cooperation toward superordinate goals?
We tend to blame victims in order to maintain our belief that people get what they deserve.
What is the just-world phenomenon?
In Festinger’s study of cognitive dissonance, this group ($1 or $20 group) reported more enjoyment for the task.
What is the $1 group?
Influence results from a desire to gain approval.
What is normative social influence?
The principle that explains why people tend to prefer mirror images pictures of themselves.
What is the mere exposure effect?
The tendency for any given observer to be less likely to give aid if others are present.
What is the bystander effect?
The 1918 "Spanish Flu" actually originated in Kansas. This is the tendency to blame the Spanish for something they didn't do.
What is scapegoating?
The tendency to assign greater value to something simply because we worked harder to attain it. It is explained by cognitive dissonance.
What is effort justification?
This psychologist studied obedience by deceiving subjects into believing they were shocking others.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
A term that means unselfish regard for others.
What is altruism?
The tendency to attribute our successes to our disposition and our failures to our situation.
What is the self-serving bias?
The region of the brain associated with suppressing impulses; damage to this region is associated with increased levels of aggression.
What is the frontal lobes?
Two of three factors that have been shown to increase the likelihood that our behaviors will conform to our beliefs.
What are 1) avoid outside influences (aka,peer pressure), 2) make your attitude specific, and 3) be mindful of your beliefs?
What is deindividuation?
The concept that behaviors that may appear to be self-less are actually the result of a cost-benefit analysis.
The principle illustrated by the following: Cutting to the front of the pizza line gets you pizza first. However, if everyone cuts to the front, it would be chaos. Everyone would have to fight to get his/her pizza.
What is a social trap?